Digital Trends: Weekly Life-Based Projects

Everywhere I look online, I see digital life-based projects and coordinating supplies cropping up. In the past few years, we’ve seen Project Life, Project 365, and Week-in-the-Life type projects show up more and more in the digital world. This year, however, the field has just exploded, no doubt coinciding with the popularity of Becky Higgins’ Project Life Kits. Becky’s kit designs use a combination of 3×4 journaling cards and 4×6 photos to document each week. Many digital stores have released selections that coordinate with those designs. Here are just a few recent digital releases that caught my eye.

Designer Digitals

Designer Digitals’ designers include Katie Pertiet, Ali Edwards and Cathy Zielske. These three designers are a tour de force in life-based projects. They all offer templates, journaling cards, and many other coordinating digital supplies. [Disclaimer: This author is a long-time member of the Designer Digitals design team.]

Ali Edwards is known for her beautiful handwriting and she offers a multitude of whimsical hand-drawn brushes and stamps, photo overlays, and word art. Many of these are compatible with Becky Higgins’ Project Life, whose design team she recently joined. Her recent releases include:

Two Peas in a Bucket

Two Peas recently released several sets of 3 x 4 journaling cards that coordinate with Project Life, including a set of love-themed 3×4 journaling cards from Polka Dot Pixels and graphic journaling-card sets by Erica Hernandez.

I’m enjoying all of the life-based projects and supplies and I think that it’s a trend to watch this year. I’ll be very interested to see if this digital movement towards life-based projects continues every year. It’s natural to see a bunch of new products at the beginning of the year as consumers are starting a yearly project. We’re only five weeks into the new year so I expect to see new digital products for a few more weeks but my hunch is that they will taper off by the end of this month. The real question is whether consumers will keep up the projects as the year goes on.

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About Stephanie Vetne

Stephanie Vetne has been scrapbooking for over eight years. She’s a photographer and a former legal-writing professor and editor. Steph has been on the creative team at DesignerDigitals.com for the past five years and writes a monthly All About Me column for DesignerDigitals.com’s blog. She’s designed for many other scrapbooking companies, has contributed to several idea books, and her layouts have been published in nearly every major scrapbooking magazine. Steph writes a blog called Steph’s Stuff where you can read all about her daily adventures with her three kids, her grammar-obsessed husband, and her crazy golden retriever.

9 Responses to Digital Trends: Weekly Life-Based Projects

Although I do paper-based 365 scrapbooking, I fell in love with Katie Pertiet’s Pocket Pages Layered Template No. 5 in your blog. When I went to buy it, however, I realized that it comes in the form of 12×12 digital pages. I was hoping to use each block as a separate journaling card that I could print out as a 6×4 (or smaller) print to insert in my paper scrapbook.

Hi Dorothy! Thanks so much for your comment. Yes, that template comes as a 12 x 12 but you can easily crop each pocket and print them separately if you like. Another option is to go to Designer Digitals and put “3 x 4” (minus the quotation marks) in the search field. A bunch of cards will show up – many from that template and some new ones with stitching. Hope that helps!

I would just like to find some designs that can be typed on in Word & just print them out myself, I haven’t found that yet, I don’t really like the PSD layers, I keep screwing them up & can never get them to print or I can’t type the text on the layer. So any MS Word templates would make me very happy.

I’ve been a digital scrapper for about 3 years now and can attest to the fact that digital scrapping is alive and well!!! There are TONS of wonderful digi-scrapping sites online (Google is my friend!) and it is a terrific way to record all of my family memories. Thanks for bringing it to the attention of any scrappers out there who might not be familiar with it!